INDIACAUSES of deathPUBLIC health surveillanceMORTALITYACQUISITION of dataVITAL statisticsRECORDING & registrationDEATH certificatesWhen plague epidemics swept India in the second half of the 19th century, there was an epidemiological need for mortality statistics; as a result, vital event registration ...
Recent advances in the craft of demographic estimation from defective data, and improvements in data base because of the development of the Sample Registration System and the conduct of several sample surveys, call for a reassessment of levels and trends in vital rates in India. As the reappraisal...
Data on cause-specific mortality, skilled birth attendance, and emergency obstetric care access are essential to plan maternity services. We present the distribution of India's 2001–2003 maternal mortality by cause and uptake of emergency obstetric care, in poorer and richer states. The Registrar ...
This paper measures the degree of inequality in child mortality rates across districts in India, using data from the 1981, 1991 and 2001 Indian population censuses. The results show that child mortality is more concentrated in less developed districts in all three census years. Further, between 19...
This study examines the influence of mothers employment on child survival in India. Data are obtained from the 1992-93 National Family Health Survey among 89777 ever married women aged 13-49 years. Employment effects are evaluated for mothers who were not employed employed at home employed at hom...
This paper compares the incidence of infant and child mortality and sex preference in India and some selected Indian states such as West Bengal Punjab Gujarat Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh over the periods 1992-93 and 1998-99. It is based on the data collected from 90000 ever-married women thro...
Using longitudinal data from three demographic surveillance systems (DSS) and a retrospective cohort study, we estimate levels and trends in the prevalence... V Hosegood,S Floyd,M Marston,... - 《Popul Stud》 被引量: 196发表: 2007年 Influence of cohort effects on patterns of suicide in Eng...
Evaluation of the family planning statistics data for Maharashtra was attempted at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics in Poona. The data were examined for the 8% worst performance and the 2% best performance of the states family planning centers. The data obtained from 3 sources were...
The combined effects of decreased fertility and mortality coupled with increasing survivorship across most ages have been upsetting the levels and age patterns of morbidity and mortality in India. This study examined data from the National Sample Survey (NSS) and Sample Registration System (SRS) of ...
Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India's environmental regulations. The air pollution regulations were effective at reducing ambient conce...